News Roundup 11-16-18

​This week’s edition of the ‘Round-Up’ featured these and many other stories:

–California investigators reveal that 7 more sets of human remains have beenfound bringing the total number of people killed in the recent fires to 63.–Jim read 2 stories of rescue dealing with the California fires.–One of the many media groups supporting ISIS operations online claimed that thethe California wildfires are retribution for coalition bombings in Syria.–A migrant from Honduras intended to wait for thousands more and hoped to jumpthe fence in a large group to overwhelm border patrol agents at the U.S./Mexicanborder.–More than a dozen members of the migrant caravan were arrested Wednesdayevening along the U.S./Tijuana border.–LGBT asylum seekers the first to reach the U.S. border from Central America.–In a non-binding agreement, the U.N. is making migration a human right.–Senator Lindsey Graham is poised to become chairman of the Senate JudiciaryCommittee.–President Trump has announced that he has nominated current administrationregulatory czar Neomi Rao to fill Brett Kavanaugh’s former seat on the D.C Courtof Appeals.–The Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion supportingPresident Trump’s appointment of Matt Whitaker as the acting attorney generaldespite criticism from Democrats who’ve been questioning his qualifications tooversee the Russia investigation.–The U.N. Is seriously stepping up its campaign to stop what they describe as‘nationalist populism’.–A judge ruled in favor of CNN’s Jim Acosta, allowing their star reporter totemporarily regain access to the White House.–Retiring Arizona Republican Jeff Flake refuses to support any more Trumpfederal judicial nominees, including 21 pending in the judiciary committee and32 awaiting a vote on the Senate floor, unless the GOP leadership in the Senatepermits consideration of legislation to expand protections for special counselRobert Mueller’s job.–Attorney Michael Avenatti, famous for his defense of Stormy Daniels, arrested onsuspicion of domestic violence.–Many Democrats in the mid-term election campaigned on a plan for a single-payerhealth care system they call, ‘Medicare for All’.–House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is celebrating a great victory for theDemocratic Party.–A new way of voting known as ‘ranked choice voting’, has allowed the Democratsto pick up another seat in Maine’s 2nd congressional district.–Florida’s secretary of state ordered the first ever statewide recount in theU.S. Senate race after a machine recount tallied over 8.3 million votes cast inthe 2018 mid-term election.–A federal judge ruled against Republican Florida U.S. Senate candidate RickScott by mandating that voters whose ballots were rejected because of asignature mismatch must be given the chance to verify their ballots.–Florida Democrats urged voters to submit absentee ballots after election dayusing an official form that had been altered to make it look like they weredoing so within the legal deadline hoping a judge would later allow the votes.